Dan Greaney

Greaney attended Harvard College, where he was president of Harvard Lampoon and editor of the Harvard Lampoon's nationally distributed parody of USA Today. He also worked as an editorial assistant at The Boston Globe.^[4][5][6][7] He graduated from Harvard in 1987.^[8]

After college, he worked as a reporter for USA Today and co-authored a book entitled Truly One Nation with USA Today founder Allen H. Neuharth. He subsequently attended Harvard Law School. While at Harvard Law, he edited a student publication, competing against a rival publication by Barack Obama.^[9] Upon graduation, he practiced law in New York for two years,^[10] during which time he co-founded PME, a television and media company operating in Ukraine and several other former Soviet republics.

Greaney coined the word embiggen for the 1996 "Lisa the Iconoclast" episode from season seven of The Simpsons.^[11]

Greaney has worked on numerous film projects, most notably as composer on Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Greaney is credited with writing "Bart to the Future", an episode of The Simpsons from 2000 that presented the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency, which would be realized sixteen years later.^[12]

Attempt at a political career

2028 presidential campaign

On May 26, 2026, Greaney announced his intention to run for president of the United States in the 2028 election in a video posted to his Instagram account. In a press release, his campaign stated he would run as a "progressive Republican in the tradition of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt", naming universal health care and the Green New Deal as policy planks.^[2][13] Greaney filed to run for president in the Republican primary with the Federal Election Commission on April 19, 2026.^[1]

The Simpsons episodes

Greaney has written the following episodes:

• "King-Size Homer" (1995)
• "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" (1996)
• "Treehouse of Horror VII" (The Genesis Tub) (1996)
• "My Sister, My Sitter" (1997)
• "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" (The Love-Matic Grampa) (1997)
• "Realty Bites" (1997)
• "This Little Wiggy" (1998)
• "I'm with Cupid" (1999)
• "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo" (1999)
• "Bart to the Future" (2000)
• "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" (co-writer) (2003)
• "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot" (co-writer) (2004)
• "Bonfire of the Manatees" (2005)
• "Judge Me Tender" (co-writer) (2010)
• "Diggs" (co-writer) (2014)
• "Barthood" (2015)
• "The Great Phatsby" (Part 2 with Matt Selman) (2017)
• "Now Museum, Now You Don't" (2020)
• "Lisa the Boy Scout" (2022)
• "Treehouse of Horror XXXVI" (Plastic World) (2025)

The Office episodes

Greaney wrote the following episodes:

• "Mrs. California" (8.09) (2011)
• "Suit Warehouse" (9.11) (2013)

Television pilots and series

Greaney worked on the following pilots and short-lived TV series in his two-year break from The Simpsons:

• The Michael Richards Show - Producer
• Animals Anonymous - Creator, writer
• Long Distance - Creator, writer